Seminar on Apathy in Psychiatry and Neurology

This seminar is part of the ION Mental Health Awareness Week 2024 programme

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The theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is “Movement: Move more for your mental health”. Although the benefits of exercise on well-being are well established, simply getting up and out is not always an easy task. This is particularly true for people who experience apathy, a symptom described as a loss of motivation or interest in goal-directed behaviours. Apathy is common in people with certain psychiatric and neurological conditions.

In a short seminar dedicated to apathy, we want to raise awareness of this symptom. We start with a panel discussion of people with Parkinson’s disease, who will share their lived experiences with apathy. The second session will feature short scientific talks in which researchers from the Institute of Neurology at UCL will present insights into different aspects of apathy from neuroscience research. We conclude the afternoon with a group discussion.

The seminar is free to attend and open to all who are interested. We aim to welcome a broad and diverse audience. The Lecture Theatre is wheelchair accessible. To find out more on the accessibility of this venue, please visit the AccessAble website.

• 15:30 - 16:00 - Session 1: Panel discussion of people with Parkinson's disease, hosted by Charlotte Dore
• 16:00 - 16:15 - Short break
• 16:15 - 17:00 - Session 2: Scientific talks
  • Professor Jonathan Roiser - Understanding disrupted motivation in Parkinson's disease using neuroscience
  • Dr Anna Kuppuswamy - The neural basis of post-stroke fatigue
  • Anna Hall - A mechanistic account of anhedonia
• 17:00 - 17:30 - Research panel discussion hosted by Professor Quentin Huys
• 17:30 - Coffee, tea, and cakes